UNICOM Global: Macro 4 and IBM partner to deliver solution for analytics and business insights

Macro 4, a division of Unicom global, is partnering with IBM to offer a joint legacy application decommissioning solution that enables organizations to retire legacy applications while keeping the data alive and available to IBM Watson Analytics to mine for business insights. The data is moved to Columbus, Macro 4's secure content repository, either in the cloud or on premise, from where it remains accessible to end users for operational reasons such as answering customer queries.